Improvement in wagonrbodies



J. M. PBRKNS.

Wagon-Body.

No. 221,097. Patented Oct. 28,1879.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

JoIIN M. PERKINS, 0E RACINE, WISCONSIN.

IMPROVEMENT lN WAGO'NrBODIEVS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 221,097, dated October 28, 1879; application tiled v November 15, 1877.

.To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN M. PERKINS, of Racine, in the county of Racine and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain Improvements in Carriage and Wagon Bodies, ot' which the following is a specification.

.The object of my invention is to produce a body for buggies, road-wagons, and other vehicles which will combine the qualities of extreme lightness and strength with those of cheapness and neatuess of appearance; and to thisend the invention consists in building the body up in one solid continuous whole of layers of wood veneer cemented together, with or without the introduction of fibrous or textile material or sheet metal between the veneers, in the particular manner hereinafter described.

Figure l represents a perspective view of a body constructed on my plan Fig. 2, a vertical crosssection of the same; Fie'. 3, a vertical cross? section, showing a modified construction.

In constructing the body shown in the drawings, I first construct the bottom A of a series ot' veneers laid upon each other, with their grain running in different directions and firmly united by any suitable waterproof cement. Around the edge of this bottoln'l construct a wooden frame having its inner edge grooved to admit the edge of the bottom and its corners firmly united. Around the outer edge of the frame I buildup and secure an upright ledge or wall of veneer, C, made in one continuous unbroken piece, and forming both sides `and ends of the box.

angular edges which would render the layers more liable to a separation in the eventof the 3 body receiving rough usage.

I rIhe lowerI edgesl of the-walls are preferably cemented to the frame; but screws,.na1ls, or

other fastening devices may be used in addition to or in place of the cement.

When desired, the frame may be extended outward under the vertical walls, and grooved troduced between the layers of veneer; or, l

when an unusual amount ot' strength is required, one or more sheets of thin metal-such as iron, brass, steel, or zincmay be used between the sheets of veneer.

As a safeguard against the loosening of the laminze of the body from each other, small rivets may be passed through the body at the points subject to the greatest strain but this is not ordinarily required.

At suitable points on the sides of the body the walls are 4extended upward and fashioned into risers a, to sustain the ends of a seat. The risers may be provided with any suitable seat fastening devices; but a cheap and simple plan is to secure to the risers metal plates' b, having their upper ends bent outward, as shown in the drawings.

By a moderate pressure the risers may be sprung` inward sufficiently to admit of the plates being sprung into the inside of the seatframe or fastenings thereon, and then, when the pressure is removed, the risers will spring outward again and cause the plates to engage with the seat.

At the forward end of the body the wall is extended upward and fashioned into a dashboard, the dash thus formed being cheap, neat, and free from liability to be displaced. construction of the dash in one piece with the body avoids the use of the usual metal supports, and permits a considerable reduction in the expense of manufacturing a body.

Openings may be made in the ends of the The y I am aware that layers of veneer have been cemented together, with a diversilied grain, and that the material thus formed has been used in the construction of chair-seats, boxes, and various other articles, and also that its use has been suggested in the construction ot cars, stages, and other vehicles, the material being applied, in the place of the ordinary boards or panels, to a sumiorting-fraine to which the material was nailed, the construction being the saine as that ordinarily eniployed, except that the scale-board or veneerboard Was applied in the place of the ordinary at boards or panels, there being no suggestion or intimation that the frame-Work was to be dispensed with, that the body was to be built in one piece, or that the sides and ends would bc formed in one continuons piece passw ing around and forming the angles or corners.

I do not claim, broadly, as inyinvontion the use of veneer-board in the construction of Wagon-bodies or other objects; but

Vhat I do claim is.-

1. The body consisting ofthe grooved baseframe having the laminated bottom A inserted therein and the contin nous laminated wall built np in one piece around its outer edge, as described and shown.

2. A carriage or Wagon body having its corners built up in one continuons unbroken seamless piece of several layers of vencer cemented together, substantially as described and shown.

3. A wagon-body having its corners built up in one piece with the sides and ends of several layers of veneer cemented together, substantially as described and shown.

4. A Wagon-body and dash-board built together in one continuous seamless piece ot' layers of veneer cemented together and pressed into form substantially as described and shown.

5. A vencer Wagon-body having standards or uprghts built thereon, forming an integral part thereof', as shown and described.

i JOHN M. PERKINS.

Witnesses:

SIMEoN WHITELEY, JOHN W. KNIGHT. 

